Saturday, August 26, 2017

Sweet Benjamin's, the most popular bill in the US save for the dollar, may be going away if government, the banks and CC companies have their way, something along the lines of boiling frogs regarding our privacy if we passively let this happen as it has in parts of Europe and in India.

This frog parable is but a myth but it still applies to the dangers of the possible elimination of cash, the last bastion of anonymity us poor rubes have in the 24/7 surveillance world of 2017. To whit.

Network, the great 1976 satire on the devolution of the news, is alive and well in 2017 as it's all about the money Trump makes for mainline nooze by being blindingly incompetent, quoteworthy and outrageous, characteristics conducive to generating stratospheric ratings and advertising revenues that have reached all time highs to the news outlets in question while the country sinks into irrelevance and despair thanks to one who has a tin ear to the max regarding on how to govern a country as large and diverse as this one happens to be.

Thursday, August 24, 2017

Charles Hugh Smith is a long term economist who is respected as one who does serious research regarding all things related to finance and the economy and arrives at conclusions both disturbing and insightful as this nation continues to print money, backed by nothing and created from nothing.

Friday, August 18, 2017

BRT has long talked about the disastrous 60+ year US foreign policy debacle with the start point of same beginning with the CIA assassination of Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953 in favor of the Shah. Since then, it's been downhill ever since with fubars too numerous to count in this particular blurb but not in BRT when you click here to see why this is so.

An Inconvenient Truth or Trump, the hollow man, as POTUS, has been a disaster and the people who voted for him now realize their mistake based on so many issues that truly boggle the mind.

With that being said, like all Americans I had hopes that maybe he could act upon issues I did agree with but nada, he could not deliver as he lacks the inner discipline and competence, along with a true core of self worth, to make a difference in terms of affecting policy change this country so desperately needs as we move further into the 21st century.

Thursday, August 17, 2017

This Karl Popper inspired graphic neatly ties in with not only the double edged sword of the 1st Amendment where the proper application of free speech should always insure the fact that "No one has the right to not be offended"but also with how history itself should be recorded, i.e.

Does one face the unpleasant history of racism (Lost Cause Confederate installs etc, etc.) or

Now that our "wonderful" president has bowed out of the Paris Accords by continuing to pollute the planet unabated using dirty tech like coal to make America "great" again, France, and other countries have invited climatologists to move to Europe to continue research to see how man can mitigate the impact of a slow motion catastrophe of our own making.

Reading this reminds yours truly of On the Beach, Nevil Shute's elegiac novella describing the end of the world, a work that gives one pause on how seemingly minor miscalculations among nuclear armed nations can have catastrophic consequences of truly horrific proportions.

Infrastructure 101, invest money to insure said country to operate as a viable entity vis a vis roads, buildings, mass transit etc, etc, etc, or perish, something not being done by the Trump Administration in any way, shape or fashion.

Sunday, August 06, 2017

BRT has talked often about AIas this is the one tech that's open ended with the real possibility of it getting out of control given just how powerful hardware has become along with the rise of the net, a potential feast for the asking for any enterprising AI that may be built by us unsuspecting rubes. With that being said, some rather disquieting events regarding said tech has come to pass as we speak.